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Margareta (Magda) Matache

is a Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the co-founder and Director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University. She is also a member of the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. Her research examines discrimination, reparations, social determinants of health—including education and social and economic disparities—and their nexus with the historical past and contemporary public policies, with a particular focus on anti-Roma racism. She has co-edited Realizing Roma Rights (2017), an investigation of anti-Roma racism in Europe, and Time for Reparations (2021), a volume exploring the issue of reparations across a broad range of historical and geographic contexts and academic disciplines.